[Riley Casey]

Changed the link to the page that had the original embed. Guess my net skills are lacking yet again.

[Riley Casey]

Nah, tell him to go for the pony tail 😎

@vvill 60498 wrote:

Pfft… tell him to get a haircut!

[Riley Casey]

There are all sorts of issues of the social efficiency inherent in gender inclusion, fairness, innumerable benefits too profound to belabor but we don’t need to go there do we TdF organizers? Lets get to the really important stuff. Add a large group of extremely well toned young women in colorful tight lycra to your camera shots and watch those ratings and advertising dollars ( Euros ) go thru the roof!

[Riley Casey]

S’splain me this. Absent clear damage that renders a helmet unwearable, how does a single crash or even multiple crashes make a helmet unsafe for future use? I have only once had occasion to replace a helmet for this reason and have had a number of crashes that involved helmet to pavement intersection at some not insignificant velocity. Most of those did not render my helmet unwearable nor did it cause more than cosmetic damage to the helmets. What is the basis for this sort of alarmist warning beyond selling more helmets?

Caustic I know, I’ve always wanted to phrase a retort like this to helmet manufacturers that make this claim but when a well respected pillar of the cycling community says the same I have to ask for illumination.

@Dirt 58485 wrote:

… Most bicycle helmets are designed to protect your head from one crash…

Pete

[Riley Casey]

Fantastic video, those are way more than mere smiles! Everyone needs a video like that of their kids.

Sudden & serious technology envy. When my daughters were born 8 mm home movies were still the thing and well beyond my means. When my son was that age a bulky shoulder held video camera with a separate VHS machine on a strap recorded those memories. Now its not one but two cameras on the bike and easy editing on the home computer. All hail Steve Jobs and thanks for the post Tim.

[Riley Casey]

Break This Meme

Macho is not macho, it’s not 1963, the average car buyer does not fantasize about being James Bond or Ahhh’nold, the Saudis are not on earth to server our every desire, the petro-chemical industrial economy is not the highest form of human achievement, the Arctic is not impressed with Manifest Destiny, the choking grey haze over every population center on earth is not a sign of our success, its a sign of our frailty. Internal combustion was an inherently good idea turned grotesquely bad by Madison Ave.

Just had to exorcise my inner aging hippie.

@americancyclo 57718 wrote:

… since when is automatic macho?

[Riley Casey]

Silver spring is an awfully big place these days so your route is probably going to depend a lot on where your ride starts. Since you started your DC sojourn in Petworth I imagine you already have your favorite route from Columbia heights or so to 14th and L. I ride pretty routinely from my shop at the silver spring end of the Capital Crescent trail to downtown and my favorite route is Second Ave to the courthouse, then east to Georgia and on the sidewalk along Georgia ( the road surface and traffic in downtown SS really suck ). Once in DC turn right onto Piney Branch, across Military And then right on Colorado to 14th St. Starting nw of downtown silver spring you may find Sligo Creek Park to Maple Ave a good route to the Metro and a few blocks past the Takoma Metro to Piney Branch. Metro Branch Trail pretty much ends in NOMA and is hardly a trail at all til south of Catholic U. The only real ‘bike highway’ in the sense that the Virginia riders have is Capital Crescent but as ebubar has noted that’s a long side ride to get from SS to 14th & L.

Those of us north of the city are running a serious sociability deficit as compared to the Arlington crowd so coffee hour / happy hour, just sayin’ in case you folks want to meet your fellow commuters sometime.

[Riley Casey]

Dammit, coffee all over my keyboard again :rolleyes: and that was BEFORE I got to the ‘Life of Shadows’ model.

@acc 57115 wrote:

I get mine from: http://heavyred.com/corsets.aspx

[Riley Casey]

Well…? Lets see the new toy.

@dasgeh 56969 wrote:

No idea about Wike, but I know one family that have a new cargo bike by tonight. SO EXCITED!!!

[Riley Casey]

Look … at … how … smooth … it … is … . Ooooooh …. Aaaahhh …

Yea, I know, freeze / thaw cycle, pavement buckles blah, blah, blah. Don’t care, just envious.

And this ” the biggest thrill was pedaling through the “green waves” of uninterrupted green traffic lights, which have been programmed to prioritize cyclists over cars. ” OMG – the hot Oz movie witches have nothing on that!

[Riley Casey]

Can’t remember the last time I was envious of NoVa but this qualifies. My grandson would be all over this in a heartbeat but he’s in MD.

[Riley Casey]

Anyone ever notice how “Sheldon Brown says” is sort of the bike equivalent of quoting the Constitution or the old testament of the bible?

@DismalScientist 54271 wrote:

Sheldon Brown says this: http://sheldonbrown.com/chainclean.html

[Riley Casey]

Chain oil. Just like on a chain saw. I resisted this for years, believing the various voodoo nostrums about too sticky, not sticky enough, hyper slick blah, blah, blah. I finally tried real honest to goodness chain oil and it works like a champ. That and the fact that it’s a fraction of the cost of bike shop chain lubricant. Having a never ending supply of worn out cotton socks helps with the wipe off and re-oil ritual too.

Just thought I’d muddy the waters but of course this has been a religious war since time immemorial. Protestants & Catholics, Shia & Sunni? bah – it’s chain lube wars that really count.

[Riley Casey]

Velcro is your friend ( well mine anyway ). A foot or two of non-adhesive grab itself velcro is a marvelous thing to have on a bike, weighs nothing, takes up no space and saves your assorted stuff and body parts when needed. Duct tape without the goo.

[Riley Casey]

Gotta admit, I ‘liked’ this post for ALL the wrong reasons. 😮

@PotomacCyclist 54010 wrote:

For the orthopedists and anatomists:

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